Heron Hall Academy

When there are more applications than places for 2027-28 (Year 7), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1Looked after and previously looked after children — Looked after children (as defined by Section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989) and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted, or became subject to a residence order or special guardianship order. This includes children adopted from state care outside of England.
2. 2Children of staff at Heron Hall Academy — Students of staff at Heron Hall Academy where: a. the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission is made; or b. the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
3. 3Siblings — Children with a sibling who is attending Heron Hall Academy at the time of application and who will remain on roll at the time of admittance. Long term foster children will be accepted as siblings of the foster carers' own children and other children in foster care at the same address. The children concerned must be living at the same address and evidence may be required to verify the sibling link. Priority within this group will be given in the following order: a. Children of twin/multiple births living at the same address. b. Other children. If a tie-break is needed to determine who is admitted under this criterion, priority will be given to children living nearest to the Academy.
4. 4Feeder school children — Children on roll at the North Star Community Trust feeder schools, Woodpecker Hall Primary Academy, Kingfisher Hall Primary Academy or Enfield Heights Academy (all of whom have been admitted through a fair and transparent process through primary admissions) at the time of application and remain on roll at their respective Academy until their admittance to Heron Hall Academy. Attendance at these schools does not guarantee admission to the Academy for secondary admission and a separate application must be made for transfer from Primary to Secondary for Heron Hall Academy.
5. 5Other children by distance — Other children by distance with those who live closest being admitted first. Priority within this group will be given in the following order: a. Children of twin/multiple births living at the same address. b. Other children.

If two applications tie: Random allocation will be used if the distance between two children's homes and the school is the same. This process will be independently verified.

Nearness to the Academy is measured as the crow flies, in a straight line from the child's home to the main entrance of Heron Hall Academy, using AddressBase Premium data supplied by the London Borough of Enfield admissions service. In multi-occupancy buildings, priority is given to the applicant whose door number is lowest numerically or alphabetically. Admission of pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan naming the Academy is dealt with under a separate statutory procedure and precedes the above oversubscription criteria.

Published by the admission authority. Meeting a criterion never guarantees a place — it sets the order places are offered in. Full detail, other entry points and previous years are on the Admissions tab.